Health promotions competitions
Murrumbidgee LHD will regularly hold competitions for students in our District to promote healthy living.
Vape education poster competition
Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD) is running a poster competition to provide high school aged students with an opportunity to develop and promote e-cigarette (vape) prevention messages. All high school students living and attending a high school in the District are invited to submit a poster addressing the health effects of vaping use or ways for young people to get support in quitting.
This competition will run in Term 1, 2024 (closing on 12 April) and offers an opportunity for young people to make positive changes in their own lives and the voice to make an impact on their peers and school communities across MLHD.
Students need to design an eye-catching and informative poster that highlights either:
- The health impacts of vaping and/or
- Ways to get support to become and stay vape free.
Entries can be submitted, after reading the terms and conditions, through our online form.
The 2024 Vape Education Poster Competition is open to high school students in all schools within the MLHD (PDF 153.28KB).
Entries are based on the student’s school year for 2024.
You should read the full terms and conditions before submitting your entry.
- You must complete the online form here and add student and school details, poster name and upload poster.
- You are required to complete a tick box confirming the consent from your parents/carers is given to enter this competition.
- Your poster should be no smaller than A4 size.
- File size should not be greater than 3510 x 2490 pixels, 10MB – do not compress file to ensure resolution is of quality to be printed.
- File format should be PDF or JPEG only.
- Ensure the use of correct information, as per NSW Health ‘Do you know what you’re vaping?’ Toolkit and the Cancer Institute vaping campaign ‘Every vape is a hit to your health’, which contains links to other evidence-based resources to guide you.
The competition will be divided into three sections:
- Years 7 and 8
- Years 9 and 10
- Years 11 and 12
Prizes will be awarded within each section to both the student winner and the school they attend (see terms and conditions below).
1st prize: The overall student winner (or group entry) in each section will receive a $300 The Card Network (TCN) Active voucher.
The school the overall student winner attends will also receive $300 to spend on wellbeing resources for the school.
2nd prize: The runner up student (or group entry) of each section will receive a $150 The Card Network (TCN) Active voucher.
The school the runner up student attends will also receive $150 to spend on wellbeing resources for the school.
3rd prize: The student (or group entry) of each section will receive a $100 The Card Network (TCN) Active voucher.
The school that the student attends will also receive $150 to spend on wellbeing resources for the school.
Entrants
- The competition is open to all young people 12-18 years of age attending a high school in the Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD) area. Check the MLHD map.
- The poster can be designed using any traditional media (including pencils, acrylics, watercolours etc) or can be designed using software technology (including tools such as Canva, Adobe, etc).
- No photos of people to be used.
- Entry must be your own original work.
- Artwork must not be overly derivative of images found on the internet, in print media, or elsewhere.
- The poster should be no smaller than A4 size.
- File size should not be greater than 3510 x 2490 pixels, 10MB – do not compress file to ensure resolution is of quality to be printed.
- File format should be PDF or JPEG only.
- Ensure the use of correct information, as per NSW Health ‘Do you know what you’re vaping?’ Toolkit and the Cancer Institute vaping campaign ‘Every vape is a hit to your health’, which contains links to other evidence-based resources to guide you.
- You can enter individually, as a pair, or as a group. Group entries will be classified into the appropriate year section according to the oldest student in the group.
- Students may not submit more than one entry. An individual entry and joint entry with other students will disqualify both entries.
- You are required to complete a tick box confirming the consent from your parents/carers is given to enter this competition.
- Competition closes Friday, 12 April 2024 (last day of Term 1) at 11:59pm AEST. Entries past this period will not be considered.
- Winners will be announced Friday, 3 May 2024 via Teams meeting and posters used to promote World No Tobacco Day – 31 May 2024.
PLEASE NOTE: Date change – winners will now be announced Monday, 6 May 2024
Submission of entry
- There is no entry fee to enter the MLHD Vaping Poster Competition.
- All entrants must complete the online form here and add student and school details, poster name and upload poster.
- The heading for each attachment must be the student’s first and last name and the school’s full name.
- The poster entry attachment must be in either PDF or JPEG format.
- All entrants will receive a confirmation email once the entry has been submitted.
Group entry (multiple students)
- In the case of multiple students entering a single poster the year of study will be determined from the student in the group with the highest year of study.
- A single poster entry by multiple students will be classified into the appropriate section based on the eldest student's year of study in 2024.
Judging
- A panel of judges, consisting of health workers and educators, will be appointed by the MLHD Health Promotion unit to judge the competition entries.
- The judges’ rulings are final and without appeal in all matters related to this competition and the awarding of the prizes.
- When judging the posters, the judges will ensure it focuses on either the health impacts of vaping and/or ways to get support to become and stay vape free and will be assessing:
- Suitability as a poster
- Impact of your messages
- WOW factor.
Prizes
- The prize winners will be advised of their success once the judging has been completed.
- MLHD will seek formal consent from the guardian if the entries are to be published.
- If the winner and consent can’t be collected within 10 working days, the prize will be awarded to the next best entry as assessed by the judges.
- Vouchers will then be forwarded to the student via the school email address they have submitted their entry from.
- The winning entrants’ school in, each section, will be presented a voucher to be spent on wellbeing resources for the school.
Display and publication of posters
- Entrants will retain copyright and other intellectual rights for any poster entered in the competition, however, as a condition of entry in the competition, the owner of such copyright and other intellectual rights grants a perpetual license to MLHD which entitles MLHD to reproduce the poster and use to promote the portfolio.
- MLHD reserves the right to crop and/or correct artwork for hanging and to ensure consistency of appearance.
- MLHD may reject entries that it considers inappropriate for any reason. MLHD can publish or decline to publish, or use or decline to use, any submitted artwork at its sole discretion.
Complying with rules
- By entering the competition, the entrant agrees to comply with these rules and to be bound by the rules.
Limitation of liability
- The MLHD Health Promotion Unit assumes no responsibility for lost, stolen, delayed, damaged, illegible, incomplete, or misdirected entries, or for any problems with technical malfunction or any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, access providers, computer equipment, software failure or any entry to be received or transmitted, congestion on the internet or at any website, or any combination thereof including any injury or damage to an entrants or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from using or downloading any material in the competition.
- By entering this competition, entrants agree that MLHD and its members, directors, and other groups supporting the competition, are not liable for any loss or damage of any kind to the entrant or any other person in connection with this competition or participation in any competition related activities, including but not limited to the use or misuse of a prize or any portion of a prize including personal injury or property damage.
- MLHD reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, cancel or suspend this competition or any part of it should external circumstances arise which are beyond the reasonable control of the competition organiser.
- MLHD is not responsible for any errors or omissions in printing or advertising this competition. This competition will run in accordance with these terms and conditions, subject to amendment by MLHD.
Enquiries
- All enquiries related to the Vape education poster competition should be emailed to mlhd-competitionentries@health.nsw.gov.au
Privacy policy
- MLHD is committed to a strict privacy policy. MLHD will not share any personal data about entrants with any other party, without the consent of the parent, school or guardian.
- MLHD collects personal information for the purposes of registration, program evaluation and to keep you informed about the contest.
- Parents/guardians of the winning entries will make the decision as to what names are used publicly to announce the winners, for example, first and last name, first name only or school that the student attends only.
- Information and entries will be destroyed three months after the close date of the competition.
- Unsuccessful entrants information and entries will be destroyed three months after the close date of the competition.
- The winning entrants’ information and poster will be retained and continued to be used by MLHD.